 | Edmund Burke - History - 1884 - 694 pages
...his work ; we feel that the last word has been said about the Gioconda with the unfathomable smile. " It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh,...thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions." If Lady Eastlake never rises to any great firmness or fineness of touch in matter of criticism, there... | |
 | 1895 - 722 pages
...thus so strangely rose beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all...thoughts, and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and... | |
 | Walter Pater - History - 1873 - 258 pages
...thus so strangely rose beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all...thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 618 pages
...that so strangely rose beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all...thoughts, and fantastic reveries, and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 614 pages
...that so strangely rose beside the waters is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all...from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell J)y cell, of strange thoughts, and fantastic reveries, and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment... | |
 | Mrs. Charles Heaton - Painters - 1874 - 392 pages
...of a thousand years man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all ' the ends of the earth are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It...thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1876 - 540 pages
...had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world have, come, and the eyes are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from...thoughts, and fantastic reveries, and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment by one of those volute Greek goddesses, or beautiful women of antiquity, and how... | |
 | 1876 - 844 pages
...man had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world have come, and the eyes are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from...the flesh, — the deposit, little cell by cell, of stringe thoughts, and fantastic reveries, and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment by one of those... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1876 - 542 pages
...come, and the eyes are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh,—the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts, and fantastic reveries, and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment by one of those volute Greek goddesses, or beautiful women of antiquity, and how... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - 1877 - 518 pages
...Melencolia was to him of Nuremberg. Pater says, " Here is the head upon which all 'the ends of the earth are come,' and the eyelids are a little weary. It...thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions." Perhaps the words erf the ancient critic, Felibien, express the matter still better : " It has so much... | |
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Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world are come, and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions.... 
